Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel. . something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothing. That's what scares women, you know.'' I do know, and you needn't be scared. I feel something all right.'' Promise me you'll always treat me as a person.'' I promise.'' Promises are so easily given.'' I'll fulfill this one. Let me show you.' After a shaky start he was comfortably in the swing of it, having recognised he was on familiar ground after all. Experience had brought him to see that this kind of thing was nothing more than the levying of cock-tax, was reasonable and normal, in fact, even though some other parts of experience strongly suggested that what he had shelled out so far was only a down payment. Kingsley Amis
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"Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothing. That's what scares women, you know." is a line from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It refers to a man who realizes he has feelings for a woman he admires.

Source: Difficulties With Girls

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